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...largely on the question of free enterprise: "[Americans] have always known that excessive bureaucracy is the enemy of excellence and compassion." True. Therefore, freedom must be the ally of excellence and compassion. Sometimes. Since Reagan's way of understanding things is personal, he puts it thus: He dug a pond on his own property, and now if he wants to stock that pond with fish, he has to get a fishing license to catch his own fish. Bingo. If the vision of boundless freedom were to consist
...tourist enterprises sprouted, stocked to the ceilings with souvenir assaults on the two archetypes of the Carter presidency-peanuts and teeth, neither of which lends itself to much variety of treatment. On the outskirts of town, the state built a welcome center, with vast parking lot and artificial pond. Public restrooms appeared near the depot. There were two shops dedicated to selling good local crafts, and-miraculously and surrealistically -there was a new, genuine French restaurant in an old chicken house outside town that served one-star meals at half the New York price. Larry Flynt began publishing a weekly...
Then she went to a Westinghouse plant in Bloomfield, N.J., and the Faichney thermometer factory, owned by Chesebrough-Pond, Inc., in Watertown, N.Y., to get a close look at the real things. In Watertown, Hopkins watched a shiny, beige Unimate Mark II robot perform a number of "unexpected and puzzling tasks" done previously by humans. "Now I realize that robots are not at all human-like but are still very impressive, even awesome in their own way," says Hopkins. Concludes Redman: "I am reassured by the fact that it will be many years before robots can replace journalists...
...Chesebrough-Pond's thermometer plant at 98.6 Faichney Drive in Watertown, N.Y., a Unimation Mark II is in charge of the delicate task of removing any air bubbles that may remain in the mercury inside a thermometer. Established in an isolated room, because of the increased awareness of the dangers of mercury poisoning, the robot takes a boxful
Five Harvard students, together with a United Farm Workers (UFW) protest coordinator, last night presented the management of the Fresh Pond Stop and Shop supermarket with a petition signed by 240 Harvard students requesting that the store stop selling Red Coach brand lettuce...